The Republican journal., 1887-12-01


in Spanish Of cour,c-whieh | have tran lated
INTO ritynr:
~ hat j. puIque:
Lr;uor divine.
And drink il.
iia!. laan Wlae.'
'lii,e is also \ Lutt,'a or drugstore. III Tula.
acid hy t'a-cpiprrl ..,.Wionan " he rcjoicr~
lnder ihe nanie 81 pcrferto E>pinoza: q shop
Of Genera! merchandise with the ambitions
tit!c Of Les iion>-. ''the i0D>;" and 4 pass
II u inn. called ,ha Hotel dc la@ niiigcncias.
i,nt i j. aHri, ii !;'ia tGt Interests Us inos.
the carit cradle ~ liz race. the 'rollcn, or
Tollantlingo Of The ToiterS. 80 oh.ure is the
origin of the ancient McNicans that the wi>e>t
>avant has not been able to locate their birth
place with certainty. Their traditions reach
back more ttian thousand years before the
coming Of Christ. hlit il is impossible to deter
mine exactly Wirle 10 draw the line Of division
ijetWeen history ami tradition. We may assert
with l">itiNen,>>. however. that their annals
are undoultci history - far back rs the sixth
century. ihi~ Woultl cUuino u. 10 the annals
of tlc Toicts.-though tlle couatry is known
I" have been inhabited by wild people man!
centuries before that race came into pr0mi
nencc. In the Valley of Mexico alone there
were The NcaIancas. the Stomes. the Olmccs
and the Tcpanecs
A- tie history of every people begins with
fabicd giants and Il great Hood, tradition tells
us that there were giants in those DAYS. and all
the early tribes preserved stories of dcIuge
which covered their portion OF the earth and
DESTROYED all lis inhabitants. It is believed
,,tI tliF'u ,'''c'' monsters VI ile nior''''S
"H'Tht ,"tir -oou ii''i.ltu 'iich. "'t NeiH
'a ''m3 anu ll''H rii>I''e' h'i s.iti'seiS WI"
came 80 numerous that they turned upon the
giants and slew them in their sleep, having
first ulu.gc,l their wine.
~ "'.'f a. ,.'e''iliiiI 'ti t'i''e' :"
, 'luite 81! ,lne'' Mne.! tiles hls'
aPItai ~ 'nt pI2eS ol iii>'ory' pfacticihg a@ri-
culture anu UNDERSTANDING many aTts. Beng
.ll'Nti pf iihan'iS strangers from tle country
IN Nii'ii ''ct nau 'oliS peel sett'eo, ihey
Jo"FhcYeu S1oth"aru' haitihs III intervals i"hss
enough 10 Hahi corn ana cnttoh ana 10 gather
III Inc cfolf>. ihelr Annals icil US that the
lni.rhlioh ht4ah III the year ~. Iecpatl.' o"
''96 oi our ilrisliah era. Incy called the
country meg ieft liN"hH" IdPmtdM-but
Wiitfe IL was located, no human being KNOWS.
except thal II was somewhere IN The North.
Speculation points TO the oldest rcmaihs of
clNiilZatlon III the nilcd States,-tlo>e of the
Mound il!ilderS, whose vast works III the
ONO and Mississippi valleys were erected so
Ion" az" ila not even the 1aintest tradition re-
mans of The ere"lors.
1t is certain that the Mound Builders were
cNiii/ed race, very different from the sayages
that surrounded them. or those who have since
swept over the country they once occupied
That they extended their sway AS far north as
Lake superior Is known from Old shafts dis
covered III thc copper mines. anu dctachc'
masses OF Gopher ore. with the wedges they
used at WORK. But thaf region must nave been
merely AN outpost. 1or all their great WORKS
are III tiie soulh. Besides axes. adIes, lance
heads' KNIVES, ETC., explorers nave iothd IL
'hosc mysterious mounds pottery OF elegant
ae>i9n' "fil."i.'Hls oi siNcr- Done ana hca-
an" VI Shci.> iroii tic NiPN'ciii Nuil also M
peihcl,is Oh "hSWt"n-'he Noicahie "i;iss ineit-
ra ID the furnaces o. i"poeatipeli ahu lNtacci-
ni't'' nsea ny the "ueieh' MeNicahs lor spear
nsaos' hIlNeS' ete.-ihuS showing that me
Muuh, pu,'"e!s iLhs, .i'Ne some oo,heo'.oi
M Mmhn htA'o. u .,t! , 'iau no' ''otu''I " .o,e w;
,ro,,, ,i'eio s'm', tn,s p,oo' H. - wv ~ NJ
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f"j 'i''' '''' i'N 'N''' '''''''''''S Vi
f - ,u ~ ',.n,;t l,; ta.' bbi,.,, ,,s
a., VI ",'' f h,t
,in.u ,''n :" ,,,m;a ,o hr "" ,nn. 'f NJ.
and ,hn w., im,i;os II wnn,I Soon, th,t
whan thc.e MounI EriI,,rrs wcra driven frn,n
| their coI,u,iy thry tonl, y snmtherIV Iirartion
md aftnr lni,'e ,van,inrinS ,rrirnJ II WeyicoH
at le,st fweIIc hun,irnJ NM t;f,v.Gvn var,
a,,o. .nl manv ha,invn thot in ,a.far,r;n,, III
| sou,hw,rd n;,r.t;nn 49, an ~, ra,urr;m.,
| ia thn Innd frnn wh;.,, ,ho;, omr.,..tnr. hnJ
.tra,o.l j., H. a,,i;."+ ro,rs '''
| AZ .nt a,to from, nut ,hn ,.r,,po., of thc
n,Yt ,hn, ~, iio,,l, ,,,,a ~" i,," Wnyico anI
timIlr .n,,lcI ~, ,Tnii,nt%i %in,,n in ths var 1oo
vhare ,he, fomnjsI iii. niiv of Tula Ui.tnrl,
n,i al ~, ,hn, T,,i .Jro.lT tei onc;nnt
AMI .,.ar,a u ''i", ..,,itaI ,no thn namn IF Man
hnni and tha, ,hn fTn,tnns marelv ronaired and
ranan,ni !, po ,iot -. i, maT tho Srattared
i;nn Of ,ar,iwaIl. honsos n'.c,,n, mo the ri,l%c
If h;,i, an thc nn,,hnrn nJ,,e of thr Mcvican